Sex With Children Not Necessarily a Crime
Good Lord, I agree with the United Nations, an organization I absolutely hate!
SAO PAULO, June 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Brazilian Supreme Court and a lower appeals court have nullified two sentences against child sex abusers in recent months on the grounds that their behavior did not constitute a crime under Brazilian law, sparking a protest from the United Nations.
On June 23, Brazil’s Superior Tribunal of Justice (the nation’s Supreme Court for cases not involving Constitutional law) upheld the acquittal of several men who had paid two girls, 12 and 13 years of age, to have sexual intercourse with them, on the grounds that prostitution was not covered by child sex abuse statutes.
Although the fact that the men engaged in sexual intercourse with the girls was apparently not in doubt, the Tribunal of Justice of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul had ruled that it was not a crime, because the girls were engaged in prostitution. Brazil’s Superior Tribunal agreed, upholding the lower court ruling.
”The prostitutes waited for the client in the street, and are no longer people who enjoy a good image in society,” the judge ruled in the original case, adding that “prostitution is such an old profession and is considered to be barely a moral abuse, but never a crime subject to penalty.”
The U.N. Said:
“As incredible as it may seem, the argument used is that the accused did not commit a crime, because the children had been sexually exploited before by other people,” the organization commented in a public statement.
“Moreover, the decision causes indignation, because of the insensitivity of the judiciary regarding the circumstance of vulnerability to which the girls are subject,” the statement continued. “The case also establishes a dangerous precedent: that sexual exploitation is acceptable when it is paid for, as if our children are for sale in the perverse market of adult power.”
The world has long sexualized children, they are not protected in so many areas of the world, even places like China and India where they are killed just for being the wrong gender. Of course America has no moral high ground, we sexualize children in our advertizing, in television shows and movies and we murder more than a million each year in the womb.
But, for a government to say it is okay to exploit children for sex because they were exploited by other adults and they charge for sex, is a new low in global morality.
